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RSS: The Persistent Protocol

Feld Thoughts

We made some of the early investments in companies built around RSS, including FeedBurner and NewsGator. RSS is a brilliant, and very durable, protocol. The original creators of the protocol had great vision, but the history and evolution of RSS were filled with challenges and controversy. SMTP has been very good to me.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. I do something I now call community hours. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So Human Computer Interaction.

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Special Edition: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But we did it, it was a blast, and you can listen to it in my podcast ( iTunes , or enclosed in the usual RSS feed , or raw mp3 ). GroupCharger , the community organizer’s secret weapon, for renting out all of Cospace for the event. Why listen? Especially if you don’t usually listen to podcasts?

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Inside Mattermark’s Ubiquitous Newsletter: Principles and Process

View from Seed

Morrill likes to feature content from around the startup community that might not get significant traction otherwise, but not just any piece of content can make it into the newsletter. RSS feeds for VC blogs
, subscribed to via Feedly. RSS feeds for founder blogs, subscribed to via Feedly. Medium – Venture Capital
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Want to Know How to Join One of the Country’s Most Successful VC Fund?

Both Sides of the Table

In many ways I wanted to focus on Matt because to those of us in the LA Venture community Matt really has become the public face of Lowercase Capital over the past several years. As always, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, Soundcloud and podcast RSS feed. You can follow me there as well.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

The formation of the military/industrial/university relationships during the Cold War and the relationship between Stanford and the intelligence community in particular, went on untold and out of sight. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be.